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Queens, New York

This is where the author was born and where he lived with his family until the age of 15.

Florida A and M University

This historically Black college is where the author earned his undergraduate degree, arriving for his freshman year in 2000.

Temple University

This college is where the author earned his doctoral degree in African American Studies, graduating in 2010.

Dueling Consciousness

This idea, put forth by W.E.B. Du Bois in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. is perceived by the author as a Black person's central ambivalence, feeling both pride in their own race and an assimilationist desire to conform to White society.

Biological Racism

This concept is described by the author as two ideas: "that the races are meaningfully different in their biology and that these differences create a hierarchy of value" (49).

Ethnic Racism

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